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Perfect for fans of Jojo Moyes’s Me Before You, David Nicholls’s One Day and M. L. Stedman’s The Light Between Oceans.

Orion Fiction • July 2017

JULIE COHEN Together a poignant, shocking love story told backwards over five decades, with a devastating secret at its heart, set to be the reading group book of the summer.

On a morning that seems just like any other, Robbie wakes in his bed, his wife Emily asleep beside him, as always. He rises and dresses, makes his coffee, feeds his dogs, just as he usually does. But then he leaves Emily a letter, and does something that will break her heart. As the years go back all the way to 1962, Robbie’s actions become clearer as we discover the story of a couple with a terrible secret – one they will do absolutely anything to protect.

Is this a great love story? Or is it a story about great love?

‘Julie Cohen’s writing is powerful, moving and truly beautiful’ Joanna Cannon, author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

Julie Cohen grew up in Maine. She studied English Literature at Brown University and Cambridge University and is a popular speaker and teacher of creative writing. Her books have been translated into fifteen languages and have sold nearly a million copies; Dear Thing was a Richard and Judy Book Club pick.